ДИСКУРС СПОРТИВНОГО БОЛЕЛЬЩИКА КАК МЕТАЯЗЫКОВАЯ РЕФЛЕКСИЯ

Abstract

The interest in society towards sport fans’ subculture (mainly subculture of football fans) has increased greatly in recent years. Nowadays this concept is an integral part of various institutional discourses. From the point of view of the communicative space surrounding fans, it has been taken into consideration the scientific discourse as well as the other discourse structures. Sport fans become objects of research in sociology, psychology, folklore study; lately they have also attracted the attention of linguists.By the examples of different types of texts (team fight songs, fans’ autobiographies, communication in chats, jokes and so on) the given article underlines that the fans’ discourse is rather a promising phenomenon as regards the study of language functioning in general. Such discourse research can justifiably be used as a means for metalinguistic reflection that allows to objectify, interpret, specify and develop the scientific knowledge of numerous significant facts of the linguistic reality (illocution, metaphor, verbal aggression, humorous effect, language creativity potential, persuasiveness, modeling, binary oppositions and others). It also should be noted that in language images, which are developed in the fans’ discourse, the cultural, social, historical aspects of the sphere of the concept ‘Sport’ and other important areas of the national perception of the world are profiled.